Address of the Congregational Church and Society at Medway (formerly St. John's Parish)

To the President of the United States

Sir,

We feel ourselves happy in an opportunity of expressing our attachment to your person, and our peculiar pleasure in your election, by the unanimous voice of your country, to the Presidency of the United States.

Though situated in the extreme part of the union, we have gratefully to acknowledge that we already experience the propitious influence of your wise and ___tal administration. To the troops stationed on our frontier by your order, and to the treaty lately concluded with the Creek National under your auspices, are we indebted, under Providence for our prefect tranquility. The hatchet is now buried and we smoke with our Indian neighbors the ____ of peace. This, while it affords us a happy presage of our future protection, gives at the same time a recent proof how justly you have earned, in your civil as well as military capacity, the glorious title of Father of your country - With the laurel then be pleased to accept the civic wealth from a grateful people.

We readily conceive how arduous must be the duties how weighty and complicated the cares of office in the government of so extensive a republic as that over which you preside. Impressed with a deep ___ of this we will not fail to implore the divine blessing in your behalf --- may you continue to be directed by that wisdom from above, which is necessary to the successful discharge of the duties of your high, and important station and may you long be preserved the favored instrument of heaven to secure to a free people those invaluable rights, which you so ______ contributed to ______ from the hand of oppression!

______ as our situation is from the seat of government, permit us to assure you that our influence, however inconsiderable in the national ____ shall not be wanting in encouraging sub____ to the laws of the United States, and thus, under God, perpetuating the blessings of an efficient federal government now so happily established.

James Maxwell
Danl Stewart
Abiel Holmes
Henry Wood
M.P. Mann

Committee in behalf of the Church and Society
Medway, Liberty County, May 12th 1791

Source:
Library of Congress, Manuscript Division.

Submitted by Bob Franks